Deploy SSRS Reports using SSRS Report Manager

In SSRS, Deploying the reports is very easy and straight forward, and thanks to Microsoft for giving multiple ways to deploy SSRS reports. We already explained the steps involved in Deploying the reports using the BIDS in Deploying Reports article.

In this article, we will explain how to Deploy SSRS Reports using SSRS Report Manager

Before we start deploy SSRS reports using SSRS Report Manager, Let me open my Report Manager to show the existing Data Sources, Datasets, and reports in our server.

Deploy SSRS Reports using SSRS Report Manager

In order to deploy SSRS Reports, Report manager provides an option called Upload File. In this example, we will use this option to deploy the SSRS Dashboard report that we created in our previous article.

By clicking the Upload File Menu item, it will open the following page. You can use this page to upload .rdl, .smdl, Shared datasets, Report Parts into the report manager. Or you can say, Use this page to deploy SSRS Reports.

Browse: This button will open the File dialogue box to browse the local file system, and select the required file.

Name: Once you upload a file, this text box will automatically be filled with the selected file name, but you have an option to change it as per your requirements.

Overwrite item if it exists: If there is a file with the same name in the report manager then by selecting this option will overwrite the existing file.

As you can see we are selecting the SSRS Dashboard report present in the Documents -> Projects -> Charts folder

Click OK to upload or deploy the report

Now you can see our deployed report in the Report Manager Home page.

Please click on the deployed report to see the report preview

As you can see, it does not display the report perhaps, it is displaying a message – The report Server cannot process the report. This reference for the shared dataset ‘DashboardDS’ is not valid.

We are getting this message because the report dataset is not pointing to any of the Shared Dataset (SharedDS).

Let us change the dataset properties of the deployed report. To do so, Click the down arrow beside the Dashboard report to open the menu items. Please select the Manage option from the menu items.

Once you select the Manage option, Report manager will navigate you to a new page with following tabs. Under the properties tab, it will show the Report Created user, created and modified dates, and the Report size.

In order to change the dataset properties, please navigate yourself to the Shared Datasets tab. As you can see from the below screenshot, it is showing an error that we are explaining till now.

Please click the browse button to select the shared dataset.

Clicking the Browse button will show you the list of available folders, and the data sets in the Report Manager.

From the below screenshot you can see, we are selecting the SharedDS present in the Datasets folder